Sekirov Dictionary

elegiac

UK /ˌɛlɪˈd͡ʒaɪək/US /ˌɛləˈd͡ʒaɪək/

adjective 2
noun 1
forms 3

adjective2

Of or relating to an elegy.
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Expressing sorrow or mourning.
- Hast thou no elegiac verse / For Brunswick's venerable hearse, / What! not a line, a tear, a sigh, / When valour bleeds for liberty? — 1808

noun1

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A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.
- His saphics are worse, if possible, than his elegiacs — 1748

forms

elegiacs · more elegiac · most elegiac

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